Russian Satire On The Web

April 18, 2008 14:58 GMT

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Russian Satire On The Web

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Russian Satire On The Web

"Caucasus Prisoner" In the original scene, a local tricks a naive Russian tourist into kidnapping a young woman by persuading him that abductions are a local tradition. In the overdubbed spoof (text excerpts below, video here), seen more than 1 million times on youTube, the tourist is "Medvedev" and he's being asked to snatch not the woman but the Russian presidency.

"Kukly" This biting satirical show depicted Putin as a wicked, foul-mouthed dwarf and oligarch Boris Berezovsky as a magic fairy helping him put the nation under his spell (text excerpts below, video here).

'Putin': Waste them in the outhouse!'Berezovsky': Oh, he talks.'Putin': In the outhouse, waste them all! Waste everyone in the outhouse!'Berezovsky': Not everyone. Lie still, boy. Now we'll make a human being out of you.